2022

Janie Haseman’s portfolio: Coronavirus coverage + Taylor Swift

Country/area: United States

Organisation: USA TODAY

Organisation size: Big

Cover letter:

Janie Haseman has been tracking and explaining the COVID-19 pandemic all year, and she still found time to analyze and visualize every song that taylor Swift ever wrote.

Description of portfolio:

Janie’s accomplishments this year include: 

Built and manage the COVID-19 graphics hub, scaling national graphics content to our 250+ local sites. More than  1,400  stories have used one or more COVID-19 graphics from this system so far. 

Built and manage vaccine data pipelines and documentation. Lead coverage of vaccine data, which has led to  2.95 million pageviews  from solo bylines alone

Created or contributed to many of our team’s best stories , including creating state dropdowns and details in the national COVID tracker, and covering the changes in magnitude and geographical shifts of the coronavirus pandemic. 

 

 

Project links:

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/03/12/when-will-everyone-be-vaccinated-for-covid-19-when-will-we-reach-us-herd-immunity-projection/6840512002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/10/26/data-comparing-covid-19-hospitalizations-flu-and-rsv-kids/8428516002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/10/08/covid-19-kids-cases-hospitalizations-deaths/8361479002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/12/17/taylor-swift-lyrics-song-analysis/6431923001/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/07/24/data-and-charts-how-olympic-records-swimming-track-and-field-keep-getting-better/7921769002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/09/01/covid-19-hospitalization-rates-visualized-delta-variant-spreads/5616016001/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/08/10/more-getting-vaccinated-covid-19-vaccine-rates-by-state-data-charts/5517751001/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/04/17/how-johnson-johnson-pause-due-blood-clots-could-slow-vaccines/7243236002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/04/12/look-up-county-covid-19-vaccination-rates-cdc-data/7130704002/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/01/14/covid-vaccine-distribution-by-state-how-many-covid-vaccines-have-been-given-in-us-how-many-people/6599531002/